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3 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

Meanwhile at the IOC Session, the Lausanne 2020 rep said that "we will make sure to deliver the fantastic Games"

 

Yes... by not showing the first medal event :p

And not showing a huge part of medal events overall. And fuck equality, let's focus on a handful of sports and show a shitload of it, and totally ignore tons of classic winter sports' medal events.

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4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And not showing a huge part of medal events overall. And fuck equality, let's focus on a handful of sports and show a shitload of it, and totally ignore tons of classic winter sports' medal events.

 

To broadcast other sports they would need many more technicians and equipment (especially with outdoor sports). It would be utterly sensless to waste money like that for an event that nobody cares about, to be honest...

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

To broadcast other sports they would need many more technicians and equipment (especially with outdoor sports). It would be utterly sensless to waste money like that for an event that nobody cares about, to be honest...

 

Then they should stop promoting it like the whole thing is such a big deal. My main issue is with IOC and everyone around it making this seem like a huge deal and bringing it like we can all enjoy all of the sports for two weeks, when in reality we can only see a handful of things and not more than results and some photos for the rest.

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I get it less for the sliding events by the way. You don't need to show every corner, a handful of cameras is enough and they don't need to be expensive at all - that is, if St Moritz doesn't already have their own camera system they could piggyback on.

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Why do french female athletes nowadays always have such exotic names?

Caitlin McFarlane, Melanie de Jesus dos Santos, Julia Pereira de Sousa-Mabileau ...

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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7 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

To broadcast other sports they would need many more technicians and equipment (especially with outdoor sports). It would be utterly sensless to waste money like that for an event that nobody cares about, to be honest...

 

well, maybe that's true in some cases, but when they denied FIL and St.Moritz Track to use their always in place streaming service to integrate the OBS pictures for what concerns the Bob/Skeleton/Luge events, they did show their real nature and their real lack of interest in making the event as much "global" as they could...

 

add this to such a poor opening ceremony, the super-G course running less than a minute race for the girls (I can't imagine what the boys are gonna do...45 secs race?)...

 

to me, those Games are already over...too many more user-friendly (and important on an overall scale) events to follow...here's just not worth the effort...:facepalm::wall:

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Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Why do french female athletes nowadays always have such exotic names?

Caitlin McFarlane, Melanie de Jesus dos Santos, Julia Pereira de Sousa-Mabileau ...

 

it's called "globalization"...people moving around the world and "contaminating" culture, habits and genetics of the places where they travel...:evil::pope:

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